This is the 4th collaboration between Malaysia’s ntv7, and Singapore’s Mediacorp Ch 8. Debuts on 23 July 2007 on ntv7 at 9.30pm, and on 11 February 2008, at 7pm on Ch 8.
It is a remake of the 2005 Singapore drama, ‘My Lucky Charm’ 情来运转, which starred Huang Biren, Chen Hanwei, Chew Chor Meng, Mary Bukoh, Jeanette Aw, Allan Wu, Michelle Chong, Zheng Geping, Cavin Soh, Margaret Lee, Michelle Liow, Jesseca Liu

Huang Biren won Best Actress in Star Awards 2005 for her role as Lucky, a compulsive gambler who has no interest in her personal hygiene, and is constantly owing money to many people, so much so that she runs out of food to eat, and her electricity gets cut off.

Singapore actors acting in this remake include: Pan Ling Ling, Zheng Geping, Dawn Yeoh & Bernard Tan
Malaysian actors acting include: Leslie Chai, Cai Peixuan, William San, Janelle Chin, Annie Wong…

Zheng Geping played Lucky’s husband in the original, but he died on their wedding night, for Lucky drove the car which went out of control for the brakes were tampered with.

The main theme of ‘My Lucky Charm’ was tai-chi, and the original title was actually called ‘The Tai-chi Lass’, while the sub-themes were the money making ventures of Chew Chor Meng’s character, a love rectangle between Jeanette Aw, Allan Wu, Jesseca Liu, and Michelle Chong, as well as the great pairing of Huang Biren and Chen Hanwei.

In this remake, Pan Ling Ling plays Winner, while in the original, Huang Biren was Lucky. Both marry twice and both husbands die. They finally find their true love in Zheng Geping and Chen Hanwei respectively. Dawn Yeoh plays Jeanette Aw’s character, a girl with body odour. Zheng Geping does not reprise his role in the remake, but plays Chen Hanwei’s role. Chen Hanwei’s role was that of a sissy, but Zheng Geping will not be playing a sissy, but a normal man, although, like Chen Hanwei’s Fafa, he is surrounded by women who like him.

Everything is mostly the same of the original, just that the setting is in Malaysia, and that Zheng Geping does not run a rival shop selling beauty products, but exercise equipment.

[the comparison below: credits to zh; but i edited it too ]

Original vs. Remake

Lucky Zhang Qiuye (Huang Biren) — Winner Chen Li (Pan Lingling)

Chen Jinfa (Chen Hanwei) — Macho Tang Zhangyao (Zheng Geping)

Fang Lixiang (Jeanette Aw) — Zeng Meili (Dawn Yeoh)

Zhang Fengshou (Chew Chor Meng) — Chen Yong (Leslie Chai)

Lisabelle (Mary Bukoh) — Tang Lijiao (Annie Wong)

Lin Meiya (Michelle Chong) — Lin Xiaotong (Wayne Chua)

JK Ma aka Xiaoma-ge (Allan Wu) — Dominic aka Xiao wangzi (William San)

Fang Yingying (Margaret Lee) — Xiaoyan (Janelle Chin)

Lin Tianming (Zheng Geping) — Li Cheng (Bernard Tan)

Cindy (Joey Ng) — Mona (Joyce Hon)

Chen Qingyun (Cavin Soh) — Wu Yingjie (Wymen Yong)

Xiu Wen (Jesseca Liu) — Shiyun (Emily Lim)

Paul Yong (Andrew Seow) — Isaac (Wee Kheng Meng)

(Michelle Liow) — Jody (Brenda Chia)

() — Lin Xiaoping (Crystal Chooi)

(Zzen Chang) — Guang

THE STORY:

Chen Li, also known as Winner, is a widow, a compulsive gambler, the head of the tai-chi school which she has neglected, and the co-owner of a shop selling beauty products, which is run by her sister-in-law Xiaoyan. She is always taking money from her daughter, Meili, and her so-called friend, Macho, who runs a shop selling exercise equipment right across from their beauty product shop.

In order to get her back on her feet, and stop her from gambling, sleeping, and lazing around, Macho gets her to teach tai-chi to his loyal customers, to “pay” him back the huge amount of money she owes him.

Later, a rich businessman, Li Cheng takes interest in her, and pursues her. Macho urges her to accept him, but she is hesitant, as she can’t put down what happened to her late husband. She and her late husband were happily married, and he bought a bouquet of flowers for her. Seeing her across the road, he dashed across, not looking at oncoming traffic, and was knocked down. He died right in front of Winner, thus, she feels responsible for his death. Macho helps her put down this burden of hers, but when she finally accepts Li Cheng, Macho realises that he likes her, but nevertheless, he wishes them the best.

Winner marries Li Cheng, but on their wedding night, they meet with an accident, and although nothing serious happens to her, Li Cheng is in a critical condition. The operation does not succeed, and Li Cheng dies. She then gets into a bitter quarrel with his arrogant and snobbish sister, who insists that she married Li Cheng for his money. Winner gives all Li Cheng left her to his sister, in exchange for his ashes.

EVERYTHING which happens to Winner is the same as the original! Does she end up with Macho? In the original, the result of their relationship was open-ended…

Macho runs a shop selling exercise equipment, with his sister, Lijiao. He is always surrounded by women, the 2 in his shop, who treat him to food, and always try to outshine the other, and Xiaoyan, who is his rival professionally, but personally, she likes him. He gets a shock when Jody’s underworld father forces him to marry Jody (1 of the girls in his shop), or eat the pile of faeces on the floor. Luckily, someone saves him from that ordeal. In actual fact, Winner was the one who saved him, but she let Xiaoyan claim the credit. When Macho realises that it was Winner who saved him, he is disappointed she already accepted Li Cheng, leaving him vowing to win her back. However, she marries Li Cheng. Li Cheng dies, leaving Macho with a chance… But will their final ending be happy?

Meili is Winner’s daughter, and a very hardworking girl. But the problem with her is that she has body odour, and that makes people shun her. She gets a job at the restaurant where her good friend, Xiaotong, is the chief chef, and because of her kind nature, she is bullied by her co-workers. When her idol, star chef Dominic comes to Malaysia, and is the guest chef at the restaurant she is working at, she is elated. Nursing a crush on him, she tries to help him in whatever he does. However, her body odour makes him loathe her. He is still pining for his ex-girlfriend, Shiyun, who has since married, and needs money for her husband’s operation. Dominic also has an ailing father, whom he cannot bring himself to visit. Meili later becomes the face of their tai-chi school, after she apprehends jewelry robbers using tai-chi. The whole process is filmed, and she became a household name. As time goes by, Dominic starts to appreciate all she has done for him. However, he had already fallen for Xiaotong, and although he stays by Meili’s side when she is bedridden, his heart is with Xiaotong. Xiaotong had run away from the altar when she was supposed to marry Issac, as she has a phobia about marriage. Meili is lucky, and does not become paralyzed, and heads the tai-chi school. Xiaotong overcomes her fear of marriage, and with Meili’s blessings, she and Dominic get married.

Winner’s brother, Chen Yong is a good-for-nothing person, who is liked by Macho’s sister, Lijiao. It is because of Lijiao that he managed to get back on his feet and do something productive with his life. After numerous failures with Chinese medicinal products, they finally succeed. With an incomplete formula, his daughter, Charlie, whom is the daughter of his ex-girlfriend, Mona, together with Yingjie (Meili’s good friend) and Lijiao, they manage to concoct a special face cream. Then Mona returns, and wants to get back with Chen Yong, claiming to be carrying his child. He forgets about Lijiao, and all she has done for him, treating her as only his good friend. But he later realises that Mona has been tricking him, and that he does, genuinely, love Lijiao.

REVIEW:

I feel that this show lacked the ‘life’ that the original, “My Lucky Charm” had. The setting of this show, and the feeling; the whole mood is very dull, and the quality of acting here CANNOT compare to the original AT ALL! Only Pan Lingling, Zheng Geping, Cai Peixuan and William San perform well. The same cannot be said about Janelle Chin – her OTT portrayal of Xiaoyan is excruciatingly painful to watch! The role in the original was played by Margaret Lee, and although her acting isn’t fantastic, it’s miles better compared to what Janelle Chin was doing! Gosh. And Annie Wong. Mann. The original role was played by 93.3 DJ Mary Bukoh, and her portrayal was so much better, as the sweet and innocent, cute Ah-Li, which Annie Wong does not grasp. Instead, Annie’s Ah-Li is a rather ‘auntie’ character – no cute factor. Leslie Chai – his acting is wooden, but it’ll be unfair to compare him to Chew Chor Meng, who played the original role. In terms of experience, they are just not on par.

The mega cast, which injected life into the story and whole feeling of “My Lucky Charm”, cannot be substituted by anyone in this remake. “My Lucky Charm” was a one-of-a-kind drama, which had a wonderful cast who gave the show it’s life, and that whole package made it one of my favourite dramas. This show, however, fails miserably in bringing the script to life, and capturing the brilliance which “My Lucky Charm” is still remembered for.

RATING: 2.5/5.0 (Average) I’m utterly disappointed! Very, very, frustrated!

The theme video – Fu Huo 复活, sung by Lin Yu Zhong 林宇中 and Jin Sha 金莎:

i like the song!!

The ending song – 我介意, sung by Jin Sha 金莎
(I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY KINSHIP II HAD TO USE THE SAME ENDING THEME!
THIS SHOW WAS AIRED EARLIER! how irritating!)

Source 1 – ntv7 homepage

Source 2 – The Electric New Paper

Source 3 – The Star Online

Source 4 – Channel 8 Chinese edition

Source 5 – Sin Chew Daily (Chinese)

Source 6 (Chinese) – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Source 7 – Kwong Wah Daily (Chinese)

Behind the scenes – pictures during filming

Stars Sharon Au, Adrian Pang and Mark Lee!

Chingay 2008 妆艺大游行2008 Feb 16 2008, Saturday at 8 pm!
Catch the yearly parade with colourful floats “live” from Orchard! What surprises will appear in the parade this year? Don’t miss this “live” telecast if you cannot the tickets to the parade.

(Re-run on Feb 24 2008, Sunday at 3 pm)

This Yrs Mediacorps Had 2 New Yrs Eve Celebrations Show. In 2 Channel. Which is Channel8 and Channelu.

Channel8 is wat it held every yrs in the mediacorps studio, You Can Stay at Home and Looks at how crowd it is at chinatown and this yrs there is host at Sentosa too. and also giving out lots of money.

Host for Live Show: Guo Liang, Pornsak, Vivian Lai, Dasmond Koh, Quan Yi Fong
Outdoors Host: Bryan Wong, Kym Ng, Fiona Xie, Lee Teng, Lin Cui Fang
Attending: Chen Jin Xuan, Zoe Tay, Fann Wong, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Lim, Ivy Lee, Jesseca Liu, Joanne Peh, Shaun Chen and Elvin Ng and Superstars.

You Can Hear those mediacorps stars singing and also others playing game and count down of CNY too.

The Other Event Will be At Channelu. Sponsored By Casberg.
Host: Tay Ping Hui, Mark Lee, Michelle Chia and Irene Ang
Sources saying this is not a LIVE show so it will be  a recorded versions.

With 2 Exciting Show Organise for US audience. Which One Are You Watching?

Every Week there is different stories for first epi which is about mum love

First Epi is about Xiao Qiang(Aileen Tan Son in the Show) dont like eating rice and Li Ying(Played By Aileen Tan) keep giving his son lunchbox which consists rice.
I thinks i shall just wrote a short one, let do a small review abt next weeks show. i knw wat happenings but i guess u all dont want me to be spoiler rite.

 So Stay Tuned to next epi

Singapore version —-> Malaysian versionLucky Zhang Qiuye (Huang Biren) —-> Winner Chen Li (Pan Lingling)
Zhang Fengshou (Chew Chor Meng) —-> Chen Yong (Leslie Chai)
Fang Yingying (Margaret Lee) —-> Xiaoyan (Janelle Chin)
Chen Jinfa (Chen Hanwei) —-> Macho Tang Zhangyao (Zheng Geping)
Lisabelle (Bukoh Mary) —-> Tang Lijiao (Annie Wong)
Fang Lixiang (Jeanette Aw) —-> Zeng Meili (Dawn Yeoh)
Lin Meiya (Michelle Chong) —-> Lin Xiaotong (Cai Peixuan)
JK Ma (Allan Wu) —-> Dominic (William San)
Lin Tianming (Zheng Geping) —-> Li Cheng (Bernard Tan)
Cindy (Joey Ng) —-> Mina (Joyce Hon)
Chen Qingyun (Cavin Soh) —-> ???
Xiu Wen (Jesseca Liu) —-> ???
Paul Yong (Andrew Seow) —-> ???

Link to Beautiful Scent: http://8c.mediacorptv.sg/shows/drama/view/2226/1/.html
Link to My Lucky Charm: http://8.mediacorptv.sg/shows/drama/view/547/1/.html

Today has the Mediacorps Event Which is organise due to chinese New yrs is coming in few weeks time. alot of stars look even handsome/pretty by seeing them on the event. Basically i had nothings to wrote here lar. but i can say this event is 100 percent better thn the jteam event of Ah Long PTE LTD…

You Can Check Wat i had wrote on my blog about today event http://100percent.blogspot.com

I Will Write a Short details…
The Hosts Brandon Wong and Joey Swee Hosting are not bad actually, i can said it 100% better thn some super hosts and mark lee… because it bought laughter to the whole event.
There Was this incidents, a 7yrs old gals who is missings and the mothers is finding her. and one kind audience found the 7yrs old gals…
Each Lucky Audience get to play game with the stars and won attractive prizes..
Lucky 50 Fans Won Munchy Donut Vouchers.
May Phua, Eelyn Kok, Carrie Yeo is shocked to be seen, as the trailers did not show that they are attendings..

That all for today…

This post will just be a rough outline of what happened in episodes 20 onwards (the 2000s), as I will fill in the details when I’m free-er : )

IMPORTANT:

Kaijie is now in the police force, and he is with Lin Fei. He has not won her heart after so many years.

Kaida is still mentally unstable, and he can’t be a doctor anymore.

Kaiqi is getting married to David, and is a journalist. She is the first one to see Jin Long in years.

Jin Long is now part of the underworld, under boss Hai-ge (Zheng Geping), and he rents a room in the same house as Rougu-mei, who is now a waitress in the KTV bar owned by Hai-ge.

Lin Fei finally decides to marry Kaijie. He is delighted. She, however, is not happy at all.

A turn of events, including the death of Hai-ge, and Jin Long’s promise to marry Rougu-mei… Jin Long becomes the underworld chief, and Rougu-mei proves capable, assisting him.

THE BATTLE STARTS. Kaijie hates Jin Long, and can’t wait to bring him down, along with his underworld organisation. Rougu-mei and Jin Long discover that Hai-ge had bribed Kaijie in the past, and threatens to expose him.

The step-brothers see who can bring each other down faster.

This results in a few deaths. Kaijie kills Rougu-mei, and then Jin Long kills himself, as he had promised Rougu-mei at their wedding “we’ll live together, and die together”.

AND OF COURSE, Kaijie dies. It will the biggest disappointment of TV history is he didn’t!

[I'll write a full review when i'm free-er : ) thanks for being understanding and patient]

This post will just be a rough outline of what happened in episodes 5 – 20 (the 1990s), as I will fill in the details when I’m free-er : )

IMPORTANT:

Lin Fei’s appearance, followed by Rougu-mei’s appearance.

Jin Feng and Kaijie’s “secret” relationship

Lin Fei’s illness, and where she falls for Jin Long, but is loved by Kaijie. How Kaijie’s bone marrow saved her life

Jin Feng becomes an actress. Then she became pregnant, which led Jin Long to go to jail, and for Jin Feng, she later fell off Lin Fei’s yacht (all thanks to Kaijie, the father of her baby), and she went into a coma, and  a few months later, died, when they were about to deliver her baby.

Kaida went mad, thanks to Kaijie, but everyone blames Jin Long, as he knows Kaida knows the truth about how Jin Feng died, and who caused it.

Jin Long leaves the family, and Kaijie joins the police force.

[I'll write a full review when i'm free-er : ) thanks for being understanding and patient]

Sample: “Radio Chart: 18 January 2008″.

If there is any questions based on this you can posts it in the forums of WorldOfShow.

第3期成绩：2008年1月18日

本周 上周 次数 最高 歌曲 歌手 唱片公司
1 2 5 1 不想懂得 (1次夺冠) 张韶篲 环球
2 1 4 1 新窝 (1次夺冠) S.H.E/飞轮海 华研
3 8 3 3 喝彩北京 5566、孙楠 华纳
4 3 5 3 爱来过 S.H.E 华研
5 6 5 6 亲爱的做个好梦 陈伟联 华纳
6 4 5 3 Super Sunshine 曹格 滾石
7 10 4 7 Love Song 方大同 华纳
8 16 3 8 十分颜色 林宇中 海蝶
9 9 9 1 最近还好吗 (1次夺冠) S.H.E 华研
10 11 8 6 C’est La Vie 梁靜茹 滾石
11 13 11 1 彩虹 (1次夺冠) 周杰伦 SONY BMG
12 7 9 3 飘飘 王心凌 艾迴
13 12 10 1 不会分离 (1次夺冠) 光良 种子
14 NEW 1 14 为你存在 飞轮海 华研
15 17 2 15 在这里等你 F4 Sony BMG
16 NEW 鸽子 杨宗纬 华纳
17 19 2 17 光年 李圣杰 艾迴
18 15 11 1 崇拜 (1次夺冠) 梁靜茹 滾石
19 NEW 1 19 这就是爱 王心凌 艾迴
20 NEW 1 20 我们之间 棒棒堂 EMI

Fall-Offs:
- 5 7 1 小小大人物 (2次夺冠) 飞轮海 华研
- 14 9 3 一枝独秀 罗志祥 EMI
- 18 5 10 投名状 刘德华 华纳
- 20 2 20 看完烟火再回去 许茹芸 种子

Radio1003 Week 3
本周 上周 歌曲 演唱 上榜次数 最高位置 榜首次数
1 8 喝采北京 5566、孙楠 3 1 1
2 1 彩虹 周杰伦 8 1 1
3 4 崇拜 梁静茹 8 1 1
4 2 最近还好吗 S.H.E 7 2 0
5 5 达尔文 蔡健雅 7 5 0
6 6 一个人 蔡依林 10 3 0
7 11 左边 苏打绿 4 11 0
8 16 败给你 罗志祥、萧亚轩 2 8 0
9 3 我不会唱歌 周定纬 6 3 0
10 12 撒野 阿杜 5 10 0
11 18 不可思议 SOLER 3 11 0
12 14 Salanheo我爱你 萧贺硕 5 12 0
13 13 缺氧 杨丞琳 5 13 0
14 再上位 斗牛要不要 TANK 3 14 0
15 19 Super Sunshine 曹格 2 15 0
16 新上位 在这里等你 F4 1 16 0
17 10 牛仔很忙 周杰伦 13 1 5
18 7 左撇子 苏慧伦 6 6 0
19 新上位 C’est La Vie 梁静茹 1 19 0
20 新上位 看完烟火再回去 许茹芸 1 20 0